different between choking vs shrinking

English

choking (countable and uncountable, plural chokings)

The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breath.
The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.

choking

shrink +? -ing.

shrinking

shrinking (plural shrinkings)

The act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away.
- 1822, The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal (volume 6, page 10)
  […] the silent grief beyond the power of words—the generous consolations of the noble sister—the shrinkings of the poor criminal, and his relapsings into a gentler penitence […]

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